Who am I and what is FarrFeed?

I was born in Bryan, Texas on the day Nagasaki was nuked. The oldest of five children in an Air Force family that moved over 40 times before I graduated from high school, I’ve lived in Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Virginia, Germany, Texas (again!), Maryland, and New Mexico. Things I’ll never forget include the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, Yellowstone, Acadia, Big Bend, the Rocky Mountains, Taos Pueblo, and the fact that Jerry Garcia died on my birthday.

I’ve walked the streets of Abilene, Austin, Des Moines, Dubuque, New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Venice, Florence, Vienna, Munich, Leipzig, Berlin, San Miguel de Allende, Chestertown, Baltimore, San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Taos; worked as a college teacher, laborer, groundskeeper, office manager, cartoonist, songwriter, musician, painter, sculptor, Internet editor, Web designer, and columnist. I’ve been to operas and hoe-downs; seen Dylan, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash; and once watched Captain Sensible do an encore in the nude. I’ve capsized in the river, gotten sunburned on the beach, wandered in the desert, hiked in the mountains, dug myself out of the snow, seen Halley’s Comet, and gone loco in the woods. I’ve built my own boat and worn out at least two dozen cars. I have an analyst in Zurich, a graphic designer in Brisbane, two degrees, and most of my own teeth. The only computers I’ll ever use are made by Apple, and I’ve been married for nearly 30 years.

If you crave more background than that, you can download the entire official bio here. Personally, I feel so different from one day to the next, I hardly see the relevance of such a thing. What I do these days is write, mostly here at FarrFeed. I also take a lot of pictures, which you can see every day at FotoFeed. I’ve written a book about moving to New Mexico and hope to publish many more.

Relevant Downloads & Pages

• Official bio (for press & PR use): PDF, 36KB »
• Comments (unsolicited praise from readers): PDF, 112KB »
• Clips (samples of print columns for publishers): PDF, 112 KB »
• Digital Potlatch
• Free Ebooks
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Contact Info

jhfarr@newmex.com
575.770.9537
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History, Specs, etc.

This site currently features a blog, audio, video, and a really cool feature called the Digital Potlatch (see sidebars, right). The blog began at Salon.com in 2002. In 2006, FarrFeed moved to the WordPress platform and was completely redesigned. That version of the blog continued until mid-2007, when the third version arrived. This is actually FarrFeed 4.0, introduced in March, 2009 and hosted at Brownrice Internet in Taos, NM (“blessed are the geeks, for they shall internet the earth”) — Oban, Vanessa, David, Dawn, and Jay are absolutely the best.

Content-wise, the posts here go back to August, 2007. There’s a whole year and a half’s worth of writing still languishing in the database from the 2006 version of the site, which I intend to add sooner or later. I also saved all the decent posts from the Salon.com blog, and that’s four years’ worth, if I ever get around to including those. All told, I’ve been blogging for a long time!

FarrFeed runs on the WordPress platform using the highly customizable Thesis theme by Chris Pearson. Want to try it yourself? Go here.

Technical Advisor
Special thanks to Michael Zerman, international Web marketing consultant based in Adelaide, Australia, for the best advice I’ve ever gotten: “Just DO IT!” (Thanks, mate!)